I drink soda, pop, tonic, or what have you only a few times a year. It is indispensable when making a bourbon and Coke or Rum& Coke aka Cuba Libre.

Soda is empty calories and people guzzle it all the time. No one seems to have any common sense anymore. If you look at people walking down the street it seems that most of them have a bottle of this or a cup of that in their hands, no matter what time of say it is.